Tailored Trends bring you closer — Trends help you discover the emerging topics people are talking about on Twitter. You can see these topics as a worldwide list, or select one of more than 150 locations. In order to show emerging topics that matter more to you, today we're improving …

MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis — I'm in San Francisco until tomorrow morning, but aside from dinner I've been spending as much time with the next-gen MacBook Pro as possible. Apple, as always, has done an excellent job of giving users enough reasons to want this thing.

Facebook Integration for WordPress — Starting today WordPress publishers can easily integrate Facebook features, such as social publishing and mentions, through the new Facebook for WordPress plugin. — The plugin was built by Facebook engineers in collaboration with open source partners …

Habbo exposed as paedophile haven — Balderton Capital will return its 13 per cent stake in social gaming company Sulake at zero value after learning that one of the company's products, Habbo, is to be engulfed in a child sex scandal by Channel 4. — Finnish social gaming company Sulake …

Yext lands $27M to perfect local business listings — New York City-based Yext, a company that offers a simple way to control your business data across more than 50 local search publishers, announced today that it has landed an additional $27 million in a fifth round of funding.

Google Updates “Hot Searches” With Images & Stories — Google has announced an update to Hot Searches, formerly known as Google Hot Trends. The update gives the page a more magazine look with images from news papers, news stories, related searches, and more. But it appears to remove the ability to search for hot trends by date.

Aging Microsoft lures young tech idealists — (Reuters) - The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer. — Fun. Cool. Special. A giant start-up. Revolutionizing the world.

The Antivirus Era Is Over — Conventional security software is powerless against sophisticated attacks like Flame, but alternative approaches are only just getting started. Two weeks ago today, computer security labs in Iran, Russia, and Hungary announced the discovery of Flame …

Gracenote buys Bulldog to take on video recognition — Media data specialist Gracenote has bought video content recognition startup Bulldog United to strengthen its own content recognition play, the company is set to announce Tuesday. Gracenote didn't disclose any financial details of the deal …